September 22, 2025 - WASHINGTON—SEPTEMBER 22, 2025—Speaking from the Roosevelt Room today, President Donald J. Trump and U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced bold new actions to confront the nation’s autism spectrum disorder (ASD) epidemic, which has surged nearly 400% since 2000 and now affects 1 in 31 American children.

May 23, 2025 - Health and Human Services Secretary ... · Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday walked back promises to release a report on the causes of autism by September....

September 16, 2025 - Updated Sept. 22, 2025 · Saying autism is “among the most alarming public health crises in history,” President Donald Trump Monday announced that pregnant women’s use of acetaminophen, the pain reliever often sold under the brand name Tylenol, is a cause of the neurodevelopmental condition.

April 11, 2025 - Experts cautioned that finding the causes of autism spectrum disorder – a complex syndrome that has been studied for decades – will not be straightforward, and called the effort misguided and unrealistic.

October 10, 2025 - Robert F Kennedy Jr is poised to make a public announcement regarding the cause of autism amongst US children

August 28, 2025 - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he’s on track to identify “interventions” that are “certainly causing autism” and possible ways …

April 11, 2025 - “The Autism Society is deeply concerned about the lack of transparency surrounding this proposed research and looming September deadline —specifically regarding who is leading this research, what methodologies are being used, and whether ...

April 23, 2025 - WATCH: RFK Jr. orders HHS to determine the cause of autism by September

September 1, 2026 - Following the release of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report on autism prevalence in April 2025, Kennedy said autism was caused by an environmental exposure rather than genetics alone.

June 29, 2026 - The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

September 23, 2025 - During the press conference, they claimed that taking Tylenol while pregnant increases the chances of having a child with autism. They also claimed that you can use a drug called leucovorin to treat speech-related deficits in autistic children ...

August 23, 2026 - The health secretary was discussing missing autistic people when a duck in his pocket had other plans.

April 11, 2025 - The United States' health department is set to undertake a "massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr announced on Thursday.

April 15, 2025 - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week said the department has launched a "massive testing and research effort" to determine what has caused the rise in autism rates by September. But some experts say the timeline is unrealistic and expressed concerns that the effort will be designed ...

April 10, 2025 - Today in a cabinet meeting, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.” This alarming claim is untrue, impossible, and ...

August 27, 2025 - President Trump and his Cabinet ... Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. informed Trump that a major announcement regarding the cause of autism is expected in September....

August 29, 2026 - The strategic plan is the work of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), which Kennedy overhauled in January by replacing experts with his handpicked anti-vaccine advocates. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images/IACC ... Experts warn the 336-page plan from RFK Jr’s advisers deflects federal dollars into unreliable alternative therapies ... Autism groups and researchers have reacted with alarm to a federal research roadmap drawn up by advisers handpicked by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, fearing it will promote unproven fringe therapies at the expense of promising genetic research. A slew of scientific bodies and groups within the autism community are warning that the 336-page plan risks deflecting federal dollars away from potentially groundbreaking genetic research in favor of unreliable alternative therapies. There is little or no evidence, they say, that many of the proposed treatments work, or that they even fit the definition of autism.

April 11, 2025 - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting that, by September, his agency will "know what has caused the autism epidemic."